Update 1/30/13 Episodes of head/arms shaking while feeding *video*

My LO was born at 34w4d gestation. He's now a little over 6 months old. About a month ago while I was feeding him his head and arms started shaking and it lasted about 20 seconds. It happened again a week or later and since has started getting more frequent. In the last week it's happened 4 times.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? Yesterday it happened twice during the same breast milk bottle which was how I managed to catch the second of the two episodes on video. It only has happened while he's sleepy like this and drinking a bottle.

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I'm glad to hear the results came back normal, very happy for you! And what a cutie, by the way! Our LO is fascinated with the baby in the mirror, too :) It's fun! Good luck with the rest of the appts!

So good news, Jeremy saw a nurse practitioner in the neurologist office today and she viewed the video and then took it to the actual neurologist on duty who said "oh that's nothing". She then explained to me that babies/childrens central nervous systems aren't fully developed until closer to age 2 and sometimes weird things like this happen.

However there is some concern when it comes to his head size/16 inches today(not even on the growth chart) at two days shy of 7 months old and his soft spot is very small (size of the nurses finger tip). We have a follow up at the end of March to measure his head and check his soft spot and if there are still concerns then he will go through a cat scan or MRI.

I'm not too concerned about this because all of my kids heads have been on the small side and I would imagine if their heads are small so is their soft spots. His regular pediatrician has never said anything about his head size or soft spot (but i don't believe he normally checks his soft spot). Has anyone heard of this or know of any issues as far as this goes?

Of course they told me that if the shaking episodes change or I notice one side is doing it more than the other to call them back right away. Thankfully he hasn't had another one of these since the day I got the on on video.